EPTDo you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 15
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Ethic
Canada439 Posts
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On December 09 2011 19:30 lololol wrote: In most countries in the world, when you say football everyone knowns exactly what you mean. The word for it in most languages is based on football(with differences depending on local pronunciation), and the rest have their own different word, I don't know of a single language that has a word based on soccer(and neither does google translate). Sorry for trolling, but I fell in love with this argument that you should use the word "football" about the game where you kick the BALL with your FOOT, and use "handegg" about the game where you carry an EGG with your HANDs.  Same principle baseball --> batball? Basketball got it right though. Tennis --> racketball. table tennis --> tableracketball?  | ||
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Excludos
Norway8247 Posts
On December 09 2011 19:30 lololol wrote: In most countries in the world, when you say football everyone knowns exactly what you mean. The word for it in most languages is based on football(with differences depending on local pronunciation), and the rest have their own different word, I don't know of a single language that has a word based on soccer(and neither does google translate). In most countries in the world when you say "football" they think of soccer.. edit: too quick to respond, you where saying the same thing sry | ||
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Nallen
United Kingdom134 Posts
There is nothing good about the imperial system. Even if we do still buy pints of beer and say we're 6' tall. | ||
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Arlenius
United Kingdom49 Posts
(Far too many people in the UK use stone as a measurement of weight...lb or kg make more sense for that) | ||
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Thorakh
Netherlands1788 Posts
On December 09 2011 19:35 Cascade wrote: Obligatory:Sorry for trolling, but I fell in love with this argument that you should use the word "football" about the game where you kick the BALL with your FOOT, and use "handegg" about the game where you carry an EGG with your HANDs. Same principle baseball --> batball? Basketball got it right though. Tennis --> racketball. table tennis --> tableracketball? + Show Spoiler + Sorry for offtopic ^_^ | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
Also I assume the US refuses to "convert" (hah) simply due to the enormous logistical costs. | ||
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iloveav
Poland1481 Posts
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Remb
United States190 Posts
Well no fucking shit it's common when you are teaching it to your engineers. Engineering aside, all other scientific fields in the US use metric because Imperial is arbitrary garbage and it only seems simple because you're all so accustomed to it. I personally know the guy responsible for the Mars mission disaster that cost billions of dollars because of 1 conversion error. By the way, the error was a measurement less than a few centimeters. So he would always get berated with jokes like "Can you move your desk 2 cm to the right?" | ||
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smileyyy
Germany1816 Posts
Yeah Im 6 Foot tall. Really what kind of feet are we talking about womens, mens ? human ??? :D | ||
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SoLaR[i.C]
United States2969 Posts
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LAN-f34r
New Zealand2099 Posts
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ApocAlypsE007
Israel1007 Posts
On December 09 2011 19:30 Cascade wrote: The one exception of SI units being useful is the Kelvin, which I think is objectively a bit inconvenient for our everyday life. Why you ask? Because the "0" of Kelvin is not at all intuitive for us, and that all our temperatures in everyday life end up between 250 and 350K, which is a bit stupid. We all know how long 0 meters (or inch for that matter) is, 0kg, 0 seconds. 0 Kelvin? No idea. For us it gets kindof cold in the winter, and super cold in the freezer and in like Siberia its crazy cold and Antarctica is penguin cold. And it can get even colder!! But 0 K? no idea. Stupid unit for everyday use. Celcius vs farenheit, I'd say they are comparable. The celcius zero makes a bit more sense imo, as that is when it can start snowing, and water will freeze, which pops up frequently in everyday use (at least here in Sweden...). For the 100 though I'd say that the body temperature is a bit more useful (105? that's a fever!!) than the water boiling temperature (anyone take the temperature on water about to boil?) in everyday life. This can ofc be discussed though. I will have to disagree on this sir. While i'm used to Celsius Degrees more I think Kelvin makes more sense. Temperature is in direct relation to the movement of the particles in the matter. 0 in Celsius is the freezing point of water, but water is just another matter. 0 in kelvin (-273.15 Celsius Degrees) is the point where all the molecules in the matter are not moving, there can't be lower than 0. Using Celsius in term of Thermal calculation just plain wrong as anything close to water freezing point will spike up the result. | ||
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Agathon
France1505 Posts
On December 09 2011 19:44 SoLaR[i.C] wrote: Imperial units are what I know and use in work, school, and conversion. Off the top of my head, I have no idea what my height is in meters, the temperature is in Celsius, or my weight is in kilograms. Feet, Fahrenheit, and pounds. Same but in the other side Metric units are what I know and use in work, school, and conversion. Off the top of my head, I have no idea what my height is in feets, the temperature is in Fahrenheit, or my weight is in pounds. Meters, Celsius, and kilograms. | ||
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Rye.
United Kingdom88 Posts
The one exception of SI units being useful is the Kelvin, which I think is objectively a bit inconvenient for our everyday life. Why you ask? Because the "0" of Kelvin is not at all intuitive for us, and that all our temperatures in everyday life end up between 250 and 350K, which is a bit stupid. We all know how long 0 meters (or inch for that matter) is, 0kg, 0 seconds. 0 Kelvin? No idea. For us it gets kindof cold in the winter, and super cold in the freezer and in like Siberia its crazy cold and Antarctica is penguin cold. And it can get even colder!! But 0 K? no idea. Stupid unit for everyday use. Celcius vs farenheit, I'd say they are comparable. The celcius zero makes a bit more sense imo, as that is when it can start snowing, and water will freeze, which pops up frequently in everyday use (at least here in Sweden...). For the 100 though I'd say that the body temperature is a bit more useful (105? that's a fever!!) than the water boiling temperature (anyone take the temperature on water about to boil?) in everyday life. This can ofc be discussed though. As a fellow physicist i'm going to tell you your logic is flawed. You cant go less distance than 0 meters or 0N -5m is just 5m in a different direction. Kelvin sets the start of the scale to 0. 0K = -273.15C Try to think of it in reverse. Imagine you've always used kelvin and someone comes along and says "We should start at 273!" Completely illogical. Again, makes no difference to the average person. It all about a global system. | ||
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Dazer
239 Posts
Reason that US haven't changed yet purely because of political reasons. Same goes for Celsius and Fahrenheit . Water freeze at 0 degree Celsius and boils at 100 degree Celsius at 1 atmosphere of pressure, easy and simple. | ||
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Thorakh
Netherlands1788 Posts
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On December 09 2011 19:45 LAN-f34r wrote: I wonder how many people think in radians and how many in degrees? Calculus means I think in radians, but I think most people would think in degrees since it seems more intuitive. Am I right? Not because it is more intuitive, but because it is the first thing you get taught in school. But as you start talking about angles long before you talk about pi, I guess it would be hard to start with radians. It's the same reason that the Riemann integral is still around rather than the Lebesgue one. It becomes obsolete only at higher level, so it feels far fetched to not use it when you first get the concept introduced. Maybe that is what you mean with intuitive though, so I guess you have a point. | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
In our country, noone has any idea about Imperial units, except for maybe inches that are for some obscene reason still used as a measure for computer screens, tires and gardening pipes (but the original meaning of "inch" is then supprssed, as a 21" screen does in no dimension measure 21 inches). Maybe someone will know, what a mile is, but usually people would be confused whether it is 1.6 km mile or 1.8 km mile. The more exotic units like pints or pounds? 99 % of the people here do not have even a remote idea how big these are. We buy beer in half-liters. There is nothing "imperial" on using half-something, half is a number as good as any other. With decimal system, it is extremmly easy to calculate fractions in terms of small units, most people don't even think of it. Many of weight-related food purchases or done in dekagrams - it is a supplementary, not basic unit, but it is clear as day and very convevient to buy cheese, salami, salads. There is saying, that there are only three countries in the world left that use the imperial system - Liberia, Bangladesh and USA. It is not factually correct, but it is funny | ||
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RaiZ
2813 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/BhmHP.jpg) Sorry if it has already been posted. Didn't have the courage to read the entire thread. Edit : Yeah, already been posted multiples times. My apologies. | ||
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